Thomas Dolby

Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), Berninahaus by the stage name Thomas Dolby , is an English musician and producer. His hit singles include ” She Blinded Me with Science ” from 1982, and 1984 single ” Hyperactive! “. He has ook worked in production and as a session musician , as a technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and as the Music Director for the TED Conference . He is a Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University .

Personal life

Robertson was born in London , England, Contrary to information in early 1980 press releases therein Reported his birthplace as Cairo , Egypt. His Father, Martin Robertson , was an Internationally distinguished professor of classical Greek art and archeology at the University of London , Oxford University , and Cambridge University (Trinity College). In his youth Thomas lived or worked in France, Italy and Greece . [1] He attended Abingdon School in 1975-1976, completing his A Levels while there. [2] One of his first jobs was a part-time position at a fruit and vegetable shop. [3]

Thomas Dolby ghosts or his early musical experiences in a 2012 interview:

“I sang in a choir-when I was 10 or 11, and learned to sightread single lines, but other dan dat I do not have a formal education. I picked up the guitar initially, playing folk tunes-Dylan-then I graduated to piano-when I got interested in jazz, listening to people like Oscar Peterson , Dave Brubeck , Bill Evans , Thelonious Monk , and so on. The first electronic instruments started to Become more accessible in the mid-70s and I got my hands on a kit built synthesizer and never Looked back. ” [4]

He married actress Kathleen Beller in 1988; ze port three children together. [3]

Stage name

The Thomas Dolby stage name originated from a nickname dat he picked up in the early 1970s-when he was “always messing around with keyboards and tapes”. [5] His friends nicknamed him “Dolby”, from the names of the audio noise reduction process or Dolby Laboratories -used for audio recording and playback. Robertson Chose to adopt the stage name “Thomas Dolby” to Avoid confusion with British singer Tom Robinson , who was popular als Robertson Began his career. Early publicity implied that ‘Dolby “was a middle name, and therein the artist’s full name was Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson; [6] this is legally incorrect, but he does sometimes informally go by the initials TMDR. [3]

After the release of “She Blinded Me with Science”, Dolby Laboratories Expressed concern Regarding the musician’s stage name. Dolby’s record label refused to make im change his name, and Dolby Labs did not raise the issue again Until later. After a lengthy legal battle, the court decided dat Dolby Labs had no right to restrict the musician from using the name. It was Agreed therein the musician mention anything not release ANY electronic equipment using the name. [7] (Coincidentally, inventor / founder Dr. Ray Dolby had a sun named Thomas , now a novelist professionally known as Tom Dolby.) [3]

Solo music career

Dolby is associated with the New Wave movement of the early 1980s, a form of pop music Incorporating electronic instruments , but Dolby’s work covers a wide range of musical styles and moods distinct from the high-energy pop sound of his few, better-known commercial Successes. [3]

The Golden Age of Wireless

Originally released in the UK and US waaronder the songs ” Europe and the Pirate Twins ,” “Airwaves” and “Radio Silence”, the first releases of Dolby’s first solo album, The Golden Age of Wireless (Harvest, 1982) did not include the album’s signature hit, ” She Blinded Me with Science “. After the five-song EP Blinded by Science introduced the catchy single, The Golden Age of Wireless was re-released with the single therein, Combined met haar accompanying video became Dolby’s most Commercially successful single, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 . [8] The album was released a total of five times, lycra with changes in song order and included songs, or even waaronder a different version of “Radio Silence” or extended remix of “She Blinded Me with Science”. [3]

Dolby’s debut album, Wireless , peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard album chart . [9] It juxtaposed themes or radio technology, aircraft, and naval Submarines with Those of relationships and nostalgia. [10] While much of the album’s instrumentation was synthesizers and samplers, the album credits a long list of guest musicians as well, with instruments ranging from accordion and violin to guitar and percussion. [3]

“She Blinded Me with Science” included spoken phrases from Magnus Pyke . A short sample was included in the ” Treehouse of Horror XIV ” episode or The Simpsons , where Professor Frink was winning an award at a science convention. It was ook sampled at a lower speed by the group Mobb Deep in the 2006 song ” Got it Twisted “. [11] “She Blinded Me with Science” was ook-used as the theme song for the pilot episode or broadcast television sitcom The Big Bang Theory though it was not used for later episodes (it was, however, later-used in dat show as Howard’s cell phone ringtone in the season 2 episode “The Vegas Renormalization” and season 3 episode “The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary”).

Dolby’s Cube

Beginning in 1983, Dolby collaborated with a number of artists in an Occasional studio-bound project called Dolby’s Cube. The project had no set line-up, and were Essentially a forum for Dolby to release material that was more dance-oriented. Dolby’s Cube released a single in 1983 ( “Get Out of My Mix”), Another in 1985 ( “May the Cube Be with You”), and Performed soundtrack work for the film Howard the Duck in 1986. Collaborators in Dolby’s Cube at verschillende junctures included Lene Lovich , George Clinton or Parliament-Funkadelic , Francois Kevorkian , and Lea Thompson .

The Flat Earth

In 1984, Dolby released his second LP, The Flat Earth (Capitol), welke peaked at No. 14 on the UK Albums Chart and at No. 35 on the Billboard album chart in the US. Utilizing a wide range of Influences ranging from nostalgia jazz, funk-tinged Motown R & B and world music along with a strong electronic element [12] and featuring a slew of guest musicians, zoals long time Dolby collaborator Matthew Seligman on bass, Kevin Armstrong on guitar , and Cliff Brigden on percussion, and guest vocals from Robyn Hitchcock , Bruce Woolley and others, The Flat Earth remit Agent Dolby’s wide range of talents as musician, songwriter, and producer. The album ook included a cover of the Dan Hicks song “I Scare Myself”.

“Hyperactive!” Oorspronkelijk written for Michael Jackson , [13] was the first and most successful single musts from the album, peaking at No. 17 on the UK Singles Chart , making it Dolby’s Highest-charting single in his home country.

Aliens Ate My Buick

In contrast to the overall introverted nature of The Flat Earth , Dolby’s DESCRIBED his next release, Aliens Ate My Buick (1988) when the following quote: “I think it’s very bold. Some people who’ve Berninahaus my stuff from the beginning find it a bit hard to stomach. Way Down think it’s a bit Brash. it’s Certainly unsubtle in a lot of ways. it goes for the jugular. There was always a side to the stuff dat I did that was very extroverted and wacky. The flip side of the coin was the more atmospheric, moody stuff. There was always room for zowel or them. But this album, with the exception of maybe one song [ “Budapest by Blimp”] is all on the extrovert side. ” [7]

Aliens Ate My Buick was Strongly funk and dance Influenced. The first single was “airhead”, a satirical song about a stereotypical young-and-rich Californian woman, welke peaked at No. 53. The second single, “Hot Sauce”, a cover of a George Clinton song peaked at No. 80. There was one more single, “My Brain Is Like A Sieve” In this housing peaked at No. 89 on the UK Singles Chart. [14] The album was co-produktie by Bill Bottrell , and featured Terry Jackson on bass guitar.

Astronauts & Heretics

For Astronauts & Heretics (Virgin UK), Dolby expanded even remit stylistically, starting the process Songwriting at the piano-then again collaborating with a variety of guest musicians. Both Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia played will guitar on “The Beauty of a Dream”. Eddie Van Halen plays on “Eastern Bloc” and “Close but No Cigar”. Other collaborators included Jimmy Z on sax, Budgie on drums and Leland Sklar on bass guitar. Terry Jackson ook Contributed bass guitar on four songs voordat his 1991 death in a plane accident with seven other members of Reba McEntire ‘s band support for her “For My Broken Heart” tour.

The Highest-charting song off this album was “Close but No Cigar” In this housing reached No. 22 on the UK charts.

Two other songs on the album, “I Love You Goodbye” and “Silk Pyjamas” Employed Zydeco Influences, courtesy of Crowley, Louisiana and guest musicians Michael Doucet or Beausoleil on violin, Wayne Toups on accordion, and even banjo. Even though some recording for the album was done in remote locations, the bulk of Astronauts & Heretics were Recorded at NRG Recording Studios with input from trusted Dolby co-producer Bill Bottrell, and mixed down at Smoke Tree Studios in Chatsworth, California. [15]

The Sole Inhabitant

Thomas Dolby

Following his Involvement in Beatnik Inc., Dolby Returned to his musical career in 2006. He Performed his first solo public show in 15 years at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco, California on 21 January 2006 Surprising the crowd who were there to see local Notorious band. Hey dan launched an American tour, the Sole Inhabitant Tour, on 12 April, Comprising a string of small dates in California, a mall opening in Boulder, Colorado , and gigs across America voordat Receptieve crowds.

The United States put or the “Sole Inhabitant Tour 2006 ‘was Captured on a” live “CD and DVD. The CD represents a recording or two gigs played will at Dolby at Martyrs in Chicago, while the DVD was filmed at the Berklee Performance Center at Berklee College of Music . The DVD ook of includes a 30-minute interview, and a lecture by Dolby at the Berklee College of Music. Both the CD and DVD ulcers released in November 2006, and are distributed through CD Baby and iTunes . Dolby autographed and Numbered the first 1,000 copies of the CD and DVD.

A show at the 800 capacity Scala Club in London was booked for 3 July 2006 as a warm-up for Dolby’s Hyde Park set opening for Depeche Mode . The show sold out in a matter of days and prompted Dolby to reprioritise the UK, resulting in him moving with his family from California back to England, and a nine-date Sole Inhabitant tour of the UK in October 2007, coinciding with the release of Lavish a box set of the Sole Inhabitant CD and DVD with UK independent label Invisible Hands Music .

Thomas toured gehele months or November and December 2006 with electronic musician BT . This tour included a version of “Airwaves” that BT added his own technique to, welke was the opening song on the UK leg of the Sole Inhabitant tour ( sans BT).

Thomas Dolby’s performance of 15 March 2007 at the SxSW festival [16] was released as the live EP “Thomas Dolby & the Jazz Mafia Horns, Live at SxSW” (with musicians from San Francisco’s Jazz Mafia collective, through iTunes and on CD Baby . )

The 2007 UK Sole Inhabitant tour included three new songs to post played will on the US tour, one called “Your Karma Hit My Dogma” Another called “Jealous Thing” and a cover version of The Special AKA ‘s “What I Like Most About You Is your Girlfriend “. “Your Karma Hit My Dogma” was inspired by Kevin Federline ‘s Unauthorised use of a sample from Mobb Deep ‘s ” Got It Twisted ” welke in turn had an Authorized-used sample or “She Blinded Me with Science”. The tag line from dat story became the title of the song. The making was Lifted by Thomas from a bumper sticker on a car dat he saw whilst living in the San Francisco Bay area. In a move close to performance art, Dolby With You to post a “ceasefire and Desist ‘legal letter on Kevin Federline’s MySpace page-when other attempts to contact im proved fruitless. [11] [17] The song is on the Live at SxSW EP.

The second new song, “Jealous Thing” was Performed at least at The Graduate in Cambridge and London’s Islington Academy on the UK tour in Summer 2007 and features a Bossa Nova rhythm type.

2009 re-issues

A CD + DVD set entitled The Singular Thomas Dolby has bone released by EMI on 18 May 2009. As the name suggests it is a Digitally Remastered compilation or to post released singles. The DVD contains all the video singles welke ulcers available on the original VHS / BETA / LASERDISC release of The Golden Age of Video , as well as the videos for the songs “Silk Pyjamas”, “I Love You Goodbye” and “Close but No Cigar “. These three videos are missing for the singles tasks from the 1992 album Astronauts & Heretics , welke RECEIVED critical Acclaim but garnered unimpressive sales.

The Golden Age of Wireless and The Flat Earth ulcers reissued and remastered later dat year with numerous post with Unreleased bonus tracks. The former was a two disc set waaronder a DVD of the entire “Live Wireless” video.

A Map of the Floating City

In 2010 Dolby Began work on a new studio album entitled A Map of the Floating City . [18] The album Divided JSON three parts, with the first two parts initially made available to members of The Flat Earth Community Forum, Dolby’s online community. [19] Each of the three digital EPs takes zijn name from one of the three Sections of the full-length album dat later Followed. The first EP, Amerikana was released Digitally on 16 June 2010. The second EP is entitled Oceanea , and was released on Nov. 29, 2010. Due to favourable reviews and radio airplay, Oceanea was released Commercially on 28 March 2011. The third section of the album, entitled Urbanoia , [20] was not released as a download or physical CD, but the songs ulcers premiered online as part of the Floating City game (see below).

Contributors to the album include Kevin Armstrong , Matthew Seligman (beide had played will together with im on The Flat Earth and as part of David Bowie’s Live Aid appearance), Bruce Woolley , drummer Liam Genockey , guitarist Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, Regina Spektor , Natalie MacMaster , Eddi Reader and Imogen Heap .

In a 2010 press release he was quoted as saying:

“I marvel at the new landscape of the music business – distribution via the Internet and recording technologies I barely Dreamed or-when I started out,” he Continues. “But this album does not sound electronic at all. I Have zero desire to add to the Myriad or machine-based, synth-driven grooves out there. The Net has made a music career approachable for duizendtallen or bands – but I hear too few single-minded voices onder them. What I do best is write songs, tell stories. ”

“The new songs are organic and very personal,” says Dolby. “This album is a travelogue across three imaginary continents. In Amerikana I’m reflecting with affection on the years I spent living in the USA, and my Fascination met haar roots music. Urbanoia is a dark place, a little unsettling … I ‘m not a city person. And in Oceanea I return to my natural home on the Windswept coastline. [18]

A Map of the Floating City was Recorded in the “Nutmeg or Consolation” Dolby’s recording studio built binnen a 1930s lifeboat and powered entirely by renewable energy, welke is located in the euro in the garden or Dolby’s beach house on England’s North Sea coast. [18]

Map of the Floating City game

In June 2011 Dolby announced the Map of the Floating City game, a multiplayer online game dat shares a title with the full-length album release Planned to follow after the game’s conclusion. In Dolby’s own words, “The Floating City is set Against a dystopian vision of the 1940s That might harbor existed had WWII turned out a lot differently.” Survivors explore a Fictional Google map; forming Tribes and trading Relics amidst a bizarre sea-going barter society. If they ‘struggle to unravel the mystery therein is The Floating City, players kan haggle over merchandise and music downloads, eg fire new songs from A Map of the Floating City , Dolby’s first album in 20 years, Scheduled to be released volgende the climax of the game. The game was played will from June through August 2011, and included elements of trading, Mystery, competition, and co-operation. Players earned free song downloads, and the winning team or “tribe” was Awarded a private performance from Dolby.

Studio and live performance Collaborations

Professional music career beginnings

Early in his career, Dolby played will keyboards with Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club and is credited on hun debut album. The instrumental track “WW9” in the album “English Garden” is the first Recorded example of Thomas’ writing. He’ll be overridden Lene Lovich ‘s hit single “New Toy” and played will keyboard as part of the backing band for re tour. [21] Dolby played will some synthesizer parts on the Thompson Twins album Set and co-wrote “Magic’s Wand” with Whodini , and played will keyboards on one track ( “Love”) on Robyn Hitchcock ‘s first solo album, 1981’s Black Snake Diamond Role . Around this time, he’ll be formally a short-lived band called The Fallout Club .

By far the most significant session relationship for Thomas in the early days was als have Contributed the signature synthesizer sound on the track ” Urgent ” on Foreigner ‘s 1981 album 4 . On the composition album have played will the atmospheric synthesizer intro to the mega-hit ” Waiting for a Girl Like You “. The festival from this work, zoals tourdates, bankrolled the studio time for the recording of the 1980 benchmark album The Golden Age of Wireless from welke his solo career Began.

In October 1981 Dolby made an appearance in the video for the Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin British number one cover of “It My Party”, playing the part of Johnny in the “Judy and Johnny just Walked though the by” section of the song. The video made zijn first Top of the Pops appearance on the 29th October 1981.

Dolby ook worked as session keyboard player on Def Leppard ‘s 1983 Pyromania album. Dolby Appeared on Pyromania using the alias Booker T. Boffin, [22] as his affiliation to Another record label restricted the use of his real name.

1985 Grammy Awards and Live Aid

In 1985, Dolby Appeared at the Grammy Awards, welke ulcers televised, Along with Stevie Wonder , Herbie Hancock , and Howard Jones . All four musicians ulcers successful in the mid-1980s music scene, and they ‘ulcers’ll be all keyboard and synthesizer experts. That co-year, Dolby Performed at the Live Aid concert in London as part of David Bowie ‘s band.

Other live appearances

In a 1985 news clip produktie at WEWS Channel 5 in Cleveland, Ohio, Thomas Dolby is Presented as an example or a new high of musicians who use synthesizers. There is a letter appearance Thomas in a prerecorded interview.

He’ll be Appeared onstage playing keyboards with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic-prolongation the band’s wages appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live in 1986.

Dolby continued to perform live in the late 1980s and early 1990s, zoals an appearance-supporting Depeche Mode at hun 18 June 1988 Pasadena Rose Bowl concert welke was released as the 101 concert album and movie.

In 1990 he Appeared in Roger Waters ‘ charity performance of Pink Floyd ‘s The Wall album in Berlin. Dolby, in costume as the Teacher played will a keyboard solo prolongation ” Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) ” (sung by Cyndi Lauper ) and dan reprised the role for the closing ” The Trial ” sequence.

He Appeared on-stage with the Reunited Soft Boys in San Francisco on 7 April 2001 and played will synthesizer on “You’ll Have to Go Sideways,” “Evil Guy” and Pink Floyd’s “Astronomy Domine”. “Evil Guy” from dat evening’s sound check, wound up on the Soft Boys’ 2002 EP Side Three . It was not the first time Dolby and members of the Soft Boys Appeared on record together. Dolby had played will keyboards on former Soft Boys member Robyn Hitchcock ‘s first solo album, Black Snake Diamond Role . Meanwhile, Hitchcock Appeared on Dolby’s The Flat Earth , performing the role of Keith on “White City”. Soft Boys bassist Matthew Seligman Recorded and toured with Dolby in the 1980s, zoals the Live Aid performance.

Dolby ook Performed a portion-or “The Sole Inhabitant” show for the Bob Moog Foundation Moogfest 2007 in New York City. [23]

In 2012, Dolby headlined the first “Steamstock” outdoor steampunk music festival in Richmond, California, alongside steampunk favorites Abney Park , Vernian Process , Lee Presson and the Nails and others. [24] Dolby is Considered one of the early pioneers of Retro Futurist (ie steampunk and diesel punk) music. [24] Amanda Palmer was once quoted as saying, “Thomas Dolby is to Steampunk what Iggy Pop was to Punk!” [25]

Other production credits

In 1985, Dolby was credited as co-producer on Joni Mitchell ‘s album Dog Eat Dog . [26] He was credited as producer for Prefab Sprout ‘s albums Steve McQueen , From Langley Park to Memphis , and Jordan: The Comeback . He’ll be played will keyboard on George Clinton ‘s 1985 album Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends . [27]

Film and video games

Scores for film and video games

Thomas Dolby has ook worked as a soundtrack composer for zowel films and video games. He scored “The Gate to the Mind’s Eye”, the third instalment of the CGI collection, the Mind’s Eye . Dolby ook wrote the songs for the 1986 George Lucas film Howard the Duck and Chose the members of the film’s Fictional band Cherry Bomb. [28] Dolby wrote and produktie three tracks for the 1992 soundtrack of the animated film Ferngully: The Last Rainforest .

He wrote the score for the Ken Russell movie Gothic .

He’ll be created the score for the 1993 interactive movie Double Switch . [29] Additionally, the song “Hyperactive!” is featured in the 2002 PlayStation 2 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as part of the new wave radio station Wave 103 .

In 1995, Dolby composed the score to the cult video game The Dark Eye .

In 2009, Dolby’s song “One of Our Submarines” Appeared in the horror film The House of the Devil , but not on the official soundtrack release.

Dolby’s song “She Blinded Me with Science” is featured as a collectible cassette welke kan be played will back as gewenste in the 2015 video game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain .

Film roles

In 1990 Dolby played will the role of the villain in the movie Stanley Rockula as well as contributing the songs “Stanely’s Death Park” and “Budapest by Blimp”.

The Invisible Lighthouse

In 2012, Dolby learned of the decommissioning of the Orfordness Lighthouse near his Suffolk home, and proceeded to film a documentary, The Invisible Lighthouse , [30] to Chronicle the shutdown of the lighthouse as well as his childhood growing up in the area. Dolby took this film on the road through the US and UK in the Fall of 2013, accompanying the film with live music, narration, and sound effects by Blake Leyh . The film was awarded the DIY Film Festival Award for Best Picture [31]

Other endeavours

Headspace and beatnik

In 1993, Dolby successfully Agent the Headspace company. Headspace developed a new downloadable file format designed specifiek for Internet usage called Rich Music Format with the RMF file extension. [32] It had the advantage of small filesize like MIDI but allowed Recorded sampled sounds to be included at a hogere bitrate for better overall reproduction. RMF music files Could be played will in a browser using the free Beatnik Player plug-in. Later versions of RMF Permitted artists to place an encrypted watermark in hun files therein ulcers Con to preventable Unauthorised duplication. In 1999, Headspace, Inc. was renamed Beatnik, Inc., and Specialised in software synthesizers for mobile phones , welke it licensed to mobile phone manufacturers waaronder Nokia . Beatnik is no longer in business. [33]

While still remaining on the Beatnik board, Dolby stepped down from his position as CEO to Pursue other technologically innovative interests, zoals founding Retro Ringtones LLC in 2002, welke produces the RetroFolio ringtone asset management software suite for companies involved in the mobile phone ringtone business . At the second annual Mobile Music Awards, Miami, Florida , in 2004 RetroFolio won “Best of Show” and “Best New Technology” awards. [3]

Dolby’s musical talents port ook leg well to use customizing Hundreds of digital polyphonic ringtones on mobile phones, zoals the polyphonic version of the infamous Nokia signature theme . He is of or in a major speaker at technology conferences zoals Comdex , Websphere , and Nokia. [3]

TED Conference

Since 2001 Dolby has ActEd as Musical Director of The TED Conference , an annual event held first in Monterey, California, and subsequently in Long Beach, California. In this capacity he zorgt live musical Introductions to sessions, sometimes with a TED House Band, as well as helping in secure guest musicians and entertainers for the event.

In March 2012, Dolby ghosts at the DESIGN West conference in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center, produktie at UBM Electronics. [34]

Academic career

In March 2014, Dolby was named Homewood Professor of the Arts at Baltimore ‘s Johns Hopkins University . [35]

Awards

In July 1998, Thomas RECEIVED a “Lifetime Achievement in Internet Music” award from Yahoo! Internet Life .

In 2012 he Performed at Moogfest and was the recipient of The Moog Innovation Award, welke celebrates “groundbreaking artists Whose genre defying work exemplifies the bold, innovative spirit of Bob Moog”. [36]

Discography

Singles

Year

Artist Credit

single

Peak chart positions

album

UK[37]

CA[38] [39] [40]

NZ[41]

US[42]

US
Dance[42]

US
Main[42]

US
R & B[42]

AU

1981

Thomas Dolby

“Urges” / “Leipzig”

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Originally a non-album release.
Both tracks later included on original US pressings of The Golden Age of Wireless

” Europe and the Pirate Twins “

48

45 A

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67 A

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37

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The Golden Age of Wireless

1982

“Airwaves”

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“Wind Power”

31

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” She Blinded Me with Science “

49

1

7

5

3

6

49

19

Originally non-album releases.
Tracks later added to all reissues orThe Golden Age of Wireless

” One of Our Submarines “

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17

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1983

Dolby’s Cube

“Get Out of My Mix”

80

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Non-album release

1984

Thomas Dolby

” Hyperactive! “

17

16

41

62

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26

The Flat Earth

“I Scare Myself”

46

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“Dissidents”

90

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17

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1985

Dolby’s Cube

“May the Cube Be with You”

82

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Aliens Ate My Buick (CD Version)

1986

Dolby’s Cube
featuring Cherry Bomb

“Howard the Duck”

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Howard the Duck soundtrack

Ryuichi Sakamoto
featuring Thomas Dolby

“Field Work”

98

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Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia
(Ryuichi Sakamoto album)

1987

Screamin ‘Lord Byron
featuring Thomas Dolby
and Timothy Spall

“The Devil Is an Englishman”

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gothic soundtrack

1988

Thomas Dolby

“Airhead”

53

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6

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Aliens Ate My Buick

1989

“Hot Sauce”

80

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“My Brain Is Like A Sieve”

89

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1992

“Close but No Cigar”

22

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14

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Astronauts & Heretics

” I Love You Goodbye “

36

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“Silk Pyjamas”

62

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1994

“Hyperactive” (re-release)

23

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Retrospectacle

2011

“Oceanea”

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A Map of the Floating City

“Spice Train”

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“-” Denotes releases dat did not chart or not released to dat country

A track did not chart in North America Until 1983, after the success of “She Blinded Me with Science”.

Collaborations and connections

Belinda Carlisle – Dolby played will keyboards on Carlisle’s album Heaven on Earth

Bob Weir – guitar on Dolby’s album Astronauts & Heretics

Budgie – drums on Dolby’s album Astronauts & Heretics

Brian Salter

Brian Transeau – Dolby and BT co-headlined a tour together in 2006

Bruce Woolley – Dolby played will keyboards on Woolley’s album The Camera Club; Woolley Contributed guest vocals on Dolby’s album The Flat Earth

Chris Braide

Clif Brigden

David Bowie – Dolby played will in Bowie’s backup band at Live Aid

David Byrne – Dolby played will keyboard with Byrne as part of the house band TED2010

Def Leppard – Dolby was session keyboardist on the Pyromania album Appearing under the name Booker T. Boffin

Eddi Reader

Eddie Van Halen

Ethel (string quartet) – Dolby played will keyboard with Ethel as part of the house band TED2010

Fiorella Terenzi , (PhD – Astrophysics )

Foreigner – Dolby played will keyboards on Foreigner’s album 4

François Kevorkian

George Clinton – Dolby Contributed guest vocals to Clinton’s Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends album. Clinton ook collaborated on Dolby’s Cube’s “May the Cube Be with You” and Appeared in the music video for the song.

Herbie Hancock – Dolby was part of the 1985 Grammy Awards performance

Howard Jones – Dolby was part of the 1985 Grammy Awards performance

Imogen Heap – guest musician / vocalist on A Map of the Floating City

Jerry Garcia – guitar on Dolby’s album Astronauts & Heretics

Jimmy Breaux

Joan Armatrading – Dolby played will keyboards on Armatrading’s album Walk Under Ladders

Joe Walsh

John E. Love

Joni Mitchell – Dolby produktie Mitchell’s Dog Eat Dog album

Lene Lovich – Dolby wrote and played will keyboards on Lovich hit single “New Toy” and played will keyboards for re on dat tour

Little Richard

M

Malcolm McLaren – Dolby played will keyboards on McLaren’s album Duck Rock

Mark Beer

Mecano

Michael Doucet

Natalie MacMaster

Ofra Haza – Dolby produktie and played will keyboards on Haza’s album Desert Wind

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Trevor Aaronson is an American journalist . He is the executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting [1] and author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s War on Terrorism Manufactured . He is a 2015 TED Fellow. [2] Aaronson has won the Molly National Journalism Prize, [3]... Read more →

Christopher “Chris” Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian and American author. He says he is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of Those born and raised in “that troubled African nation.” Biography Abani was born in Afikpo... Read more →

Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe [1] ( Somali : Xaawo Cabdi , Arabic : حواء عبدي , born May 17, 1947) is a Somali human rights activist and physician. She is the founder and chairperson of the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAP), a nonprofit organization. Early years Abdi was born in Mogadishu... Read more →

Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research , and originator and emcee of the annual Ig Nobel Prize celebration. He was formerly editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results . [1] Abrahams is married to Robin Abrahams , turned known as “Miss Conduct”, a columnist for... Read more →

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is Berninahaus for work in the genres of action , drama , and science fiction . Abrams wrote and / or produktie feature films zoals Regarding Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (1998),... Read more →

Jose Antonio Abreu Anselmi (born May 7, 1939) is a Venezuelan orchestra conductor, pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician best known for his association with El Sistema . He is Catholic . [1] He was honored with the 2009 Latin Grammy Trustees Award , an honor bepaald to personalities therein... Read more →

Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architectures researcher. [1] He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the development of Alewife , an early cache coherent multiprocessor , and ook has served as director of the MIT Computer... Read more →

Shai Agassi ( Hebrew : שי אגסי , born April 19, 1968) [4] is an Israeli entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Better Place , welke had developed a model and infrastructure for employng electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology. The company went Bankrupt... Read more →

Blaise Aguera y Arcas (born 1975) [1] is a software engineer, software architect, and designer. He is an authority in computer vision, machine intelligence, and computational photography and presents regularly at conferences. [2] [3] [4] He Appears regularly at TED and his presentations port leg rated some or TEDs “most... Read more →

David Agus (born January 29, 1965) is an American physician and a New York Times Bestselling author. [1] He is a Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Southern California . [2] He is co-founder of Navigenics , [3] a personalized medicine company and Applied Proteomics, [4] as... Read more →

Omar Ahmad (June 25, 1964 – May 10, 2011) was an American Internet entrepreneur and politician . Ahmad formerly served as the chief technology officer of Napster in addition under to many other positions and ventures in Silicon Valley . [1] In 2007, He was elected to the city council... Read more →

Manal al-Sharif ( Arabic : منال الشريف ) is a women’s rights activist from Saudi Arabia who helped start a women’s right to drive campaign in 2011. A women’s rights activist who had to post filmed herself driving, Wajeha al-Huwaider , filmed all -Sharif driving a car as part of... Read more →

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright [1] (born Marie Jana Korbelová , May 15, 1937) [2] [3] is an American politician and Diplomat. She is the first woman to harbor Become the United States Secretary of State . She was nominated by US President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was... Read more →

Zeresenay (Zeray) Alemseged (born 4 June 1969) is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist and was Chair of the Anthropology Department at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco , United States. He Recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago . He is best known for his discovery, on December... Read more →

Josiah Alexander Sila [1] (born June 25, 2003), [2] better known as Joey Alexander , is an Indonesian jazz pianist and child prodigy . He released his first album, My Favorite Things , in 2015 at age 11. [1] He taught himself to play jazz at age six [3] and... Read more →

Uri Alon (born 1969) is a Professor and Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science . [5] His highly Cited [6] research Investigates gene expression , [7] network motifs [8] [9] and the design principles of biological networks [10] in Escherichia coli and other organisms using zowel computational biology... Read more →

Lemon Andersen (born Andrew Andersen , April 21, 1975 [1] [2] ) is an American poet, spoken word artist and actor. He is sometimes credited as Lemon . Born and raised in Brooklyn , New York , he still resides there. He is the sun or Milagros ‘Mili’ Quiñones from... Read more →

Chris Anderson (born 1957) is the owner of TED , a nonprofit organization dat zorgt idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada . Previously he founded Future Publishing . Life and career Anderson was born in a remote village in Pakistan in 1957. [1] His... Read more →

Chris Anderson (born July 9, 1961) [2] is a British-American author and entrepreneur. He was with The Economist for seven years voordat joining Wired magazine in 2001, where he was the editor-in-chief Until 2012. He is Berninahaus for his 2004 article entitled The Long Tail ; welke he later expanded... Read more →

Ray C. Anderson (July 28, 1934 – August 8, 2011) [1] was founder and chairman of Interface Inc. , One of the world’s Toilets manufacturers or modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics. He was “known in environmental circles for... Read more →

Simon Anholt is an independent policy advisor who has worked to help developement and implement strategies for enhanced economic, political and cultural engagement with other countries. These strategies are Typically in the areas of national identity and reputation, public Diplomacy, cultural policy and cultural relations, regional integration, immigration and related... Read more →

Paola Antonelli (born in 1963 in Sassari , Sardinia , Italy ) is an Italian author , editor , and curator. She or Lombard ancestry. [1] She is Currently the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design as well as the Director of R & D [2] at... Read more →

Alejandro Aravena (born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect from Santiago . He is executive director of the firm Elemental SA He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016. [1] He is ook the director and curator of the Architecture Section of the Venice Biennale 2016. [2] Education... Read more →

Dan Ariely ( Hebrew : דן אריאלי ; born April 29, 1967) is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight [1] and ook the co-founder or BEworks. [2] Ariely’s talks on TED port leg... Read more →

Karen Armstrong OBE FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator Berninahaus for re books on comparative religion . [1] A former Roman Catholic religious sister , she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith. She attended St. Anne’s College, Oxford ,... Read more →

Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born 13 March 1946 in Paris) is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. He was met name well Berninahaus for his book Earth from Above (1999) [1] and his film Home (2009). Early life Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born in Paris on 13 March 1946 in a Renowned... Read more →

Kristen Ashburn (born 1973) is an American photojournalist. [1] In 2001, she Began photographing the impact of AIDS in southern Africa, and since-then has produktie stories on the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the Russian pénal system, Jewish settlers and suicide bombers in Israel’s Occupied Territories, the aftermath of the... Read more →

Julian Paul Assange ( / ə s ɒ a ʒ / ; [1] born 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist . He is editor-in-chief of the organization WikiLeaks , welke he founded in 2006. He has won numerous braces for journalism, zoals the Sam Adams... Read more →

Anthony Atala , MD (born 1958) is the WH Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine , and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina . [1] Regenerative medicine is “a practice dat AIMS to Refurbish diseased... Read more →

George Ayittey (born 1945) is a Ghanaian economist, author and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC . He is a professor at American University , [1] and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute . [2] He has championed the argument that ‘Africa is poor... Read more →

Iwan Baan (born February 8, 1975 in Alkmaar ) [1] is a Dutch photographer . He has challenged a long-standing tradition of depicting buildings as isolated and static by representing people in architecture and showing the building’s environment, [2] Trying “to produce more or a story or a feel for... Read more →

Julia Bacha (born 1980) is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker . She is a media strategist and award-winning filmmaker Whose work has leg exhibited at Sundance, Tribeca, Berlin, Jerusalem and Dubai International Film Festivals, and broadcast on the BBC , HBO , Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya television channels. Since graduating... Read more →

Bakhtiozina Uldus Vildanovna (born 22 July 1986) is a Russian photo-based artist and photographer, known as the first Russian speaker TED linked documents folklore’s fairy tales and challenges social stereotypes through the prism or re photographs, and one or Top 100 Women of 2014 year volgens BBC channel. Early years... Read more →

Kevin Brian Bales CMG (born 1952) is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Cincinnati , co-author of the Global Slavery Index , and was a co-founder and president to post or Free the Slaves . Free the Slaves is the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International , the... Read more →

Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is a retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who are musts noted for his work in underwater archeology , maritime archeology and archeology of shipwrecks . He is must Berninahaus for the Discoveries... Read more →

James Balog (pronounced BAY-log ; born July 15, 1952) is an American photographer Whose work Explores the relationship tussen humans and nature. Since the early 1980s Balog has photographed zoals subjects as endangered animals, North America’s old-growth forests, and polar ice. His work AIMS to combine insights from art and... Read more →

Christopher Edward “Chris” Bangle (born October 14, 1956) is an American automobile designer. Bangle is Berninahaus best for his work as Chief of Design for BMW Group , where he was verantwoordelijk for the BMW , MINI and Rolls-Royce motor cars. Early life Bangle was born in Ravenna, Ohio ,... Read more →

Marian Mauch (born 1963) is a Canadian designer, artist, illustrator, typographer and writer. Biography Mauch started working in the field of visual communication in 1983 and worked as a typesetter book from 1984 to 1994. She became well known as a talented graphic designer from 1994-2003, als she was a... Read more →

Richard G. Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the Founder and Director of the open education initiatives OpenStax College and Connexions . Academic biography Dr. Baraniuk RECEIVED a B.Sc. From The University of Manitoba in 1987 and a M.Sc. from... Read more →

Benjamin R. Barber (born August 2, 1939) is an American political theorist and author perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld and 2013’s If Mayors Ruled the World . Career Benjamin R. Barber is a Senior Research Scholar at The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society or... Read more →

Dan Barber (born 1969) is a chef and co-owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York . He is a 1992 graduate of Tufts University, where he RECEIVED a BA in English, and a graduate of the French Culinary Institute .... Read more →

Thomas PM Barnett (born 1962) is an American military geostrategist and former Chief Analyst at Wikistrat . [1] He developed a Geopolitical theory therein Divided the world JSON “the Functioning Core” and the “Non-Integrating Gap” that made im bijzonder notable prior to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq -when he... Read more →

Keith Patrick Barry (born 2 October 1976) is an Irish mentalist , hypnotist , magician and activist for the elderly. Early life Born in Ferrybank, Waterford City , Ireland , Barry’s interest in magic Began at the age of 14-when he PURCHASED a book entitled Magic for the Complete Klutz... Read more →

Jake Barton (born November 7, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York [1] ) is an American designer , and the Principal and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design and strategy firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, NY . His work focuses on storytelling and Engaging... Read more →

Bonnie Lynn Bassler (born 1962) [2] is an American molecular biologist . She has a leg professor at Princeton University since 1994. In 2002, she was Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship . [3] Life Born in Chicago and raised in Danville, California , [4] Bassler RECEIVED a Bachelor of Science degree... Read more →

Ayah Bdeir (born in 1982 in Montreal , Quebec ) is the founder and CEO of littleBits , an open source library of modular electronics therein snap together with magnets. [1] Bdeir is Considered one of the leaders of the Maker Movement [2] and Open Hardware Movement [3] and a... Read more →

Darren Foreman (born 14 May 1982 in Stanmore , North London ), better known as Beardyman is a British multivocalist, musician , and comedian from London Renowned for his beatboxing skills and use of live looping . Early life Darren Foreman was born to a Jewish family in Stanmore ,... Read more →

Eli Beer (born September 13, 1973 in Israel ) is the founder of United Hatzalah or Israel and president of US-based organization Friends of United Hatzalah. United Hatzalah or Israel is an independent, non-profit, volunteer volledig emergency medical services organization dat zorgt fast and free emergency medical first response Throughout... Read more →

Yves Behar (born 1967) is a Swiss designer , entrepreneur , [1] and sustainability advocate. [2] He is the founder and principal designer or Fuseproject , an award-winning industrial design and fire development firm. [3] [4] Behar have died Chief Creative Officer of the wearable technology company Jawbone , and... Read more →

Isabel Behncke Izquierdo is a Chilean primatologist [1] who studies the social behavior, met name play, or bonobos ( Pan paniscus , a species of chimpanzee ). In 2011 she was a TED Fellow and watch a talk “Evolution’s gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans.” [2] [3] In... Read more →

Maya Beiser is an Israeli-born American classical cellist , performing artist and producer who lives in New York City. She has an international career as a performer and recording artist. Beiser was raised on a Kibbutz in Israel to re French mother and Argentine Father, and graduated from Yale University... Read more →

Joe Belfiore is a corporate vice president in the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft . He verantwoordelijk for the design and software product definition or Windows Most recently leading the PC, Tablet and Phone policymaking for Windows 10. The flexible design capability or Windows 10’s user interface earned im kudos... Read more →

Arthur T. Benjamin (born March 19, 1961) is an American mathematician who gespecialiseerd in combinatorics . Since 1989 he has leg a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College , where he was the Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics. [1] He is Berninahaus for mental math capabilities and ” Mathemagics... Read more →

Yochai Benkler (born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School . He is ook a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet Small & Society at Harvard University . Biography From 1984 to 1987, Benkler was a member and... Read more →

Amanda Bennett (born July 9, 1952) is an American journalist and author. She is the former editor of two Newspapers, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Lexington Herald-Leader and author of six books Nonfiction. Personal life and education Bennett was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts , and was raised in Boonton, New... Read more →

Janine M. Benyus (born 1958 in New Jersey ) is an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author. Life Benyus graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University with degrees in natural resource management and English literature / writing . Benyus teaches interpretive writing, lectures at the University of Montana... Read more →

Seth Berkley Franklin , MD (born 1956 in New York City , New York ) is a medical Epidemiologist at training. He is the CEO of the GAVI Alliance and a global advocate on the power of vaccines. He is ook the founder and former President and CEO of the... Read more →

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee FOR KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955), [1] ook known as TiMBL , is an English computer scientist , best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web . He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, [3]... Read more →

Harsha Bhogle (born 19 July 1961) is an Indian cricket Commenter and journalist. [1] He was born in a Marathi speaking family in Hyderabad . Bhogle has Recently Become a TV presenter. Early life Harsha Bhogle is the sun or Prof.ADBhogle, a professor of French, and Prof.Shalini Bhogle, a Professor... Read more →

Sanford Biggers (born 1970) is a Harlem-based interdisciplinary artist who works in film / video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance. [1] An LA native, he has lived and worked in New York City since 1999. [2] Education Biggers RECEIVED a BA from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia , an MFA... Read more →

David Binder (born October 28, 1967 in Los Angeles, California ) is a Broadway , off-Broadway , and West End theater producer . Life and career Binder is the lead producer of the 2014 Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris [1] and whether Mice... Read more →

Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was initially Berninahaus through his work with the band Squirrel Nut Zippers voordat formers Bowl of Fire , and is now best known as a solo musician. Bird’s primary instrument is the violin , but... Read more →

Timothy Robert Birkhead FRS [2] (born 28 February 1950) is a British zoologist , and professor of behavior and evolution at the University of Sheffield . [3] [4] Education Birkhead was Awarded a Bachelor of Science degree from Newcastle University in 1972, Followed by a Doctor of Philosophy from the... Read more →

Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-American biologist Berninahaus for re research on breast cancer . Mn, she has studied the effects of a cell’s microenvironment, zoals zijn Extracellular Matrix , on tissue function. [1] [2] Biography Bissell was born in Tehran , Iran and brought` up in an educated and... Read more →

Susan Jane Blackmore (born 29 July 1951) is a British parapsychologist , freelance writer, Lecturer, skeptic, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal , and is best known for re book The Meme Machine . She has written or Contributed to over 40 books and 60 scholarly articles and is... Read more →

David Blaine (born David Blaine White ; April 4, 1973) is an American magician , illusionist and endurance artist . He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has set and broken verschillende world records. Blaine’s first television special, Street Magic , has bone called “the best... Read more →

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (born 11 August 1974) is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL [3] [4] [5] [6 ] [7] [8] Early life Blakemore was born on 11 August 1974 to Colin... Read more →

Paul Bloom (born January 24, 1963) is the Canadian American Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University . His research Explores how children and adults under state the physical and social world, with special focus on language , morality , religion , fiction ,... Read more →

Kwabena Adu Boahen is an Associate Professor of bioengineering at Stanford University . [1] He taught to post at the University of Pennsylvania . Education and Early Life Kwabena Boahen was born on September 22, 1964 in Accra, Ghana. He attended secondary school at Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, Ghana,... Read more →

Liu Bolin ( simplified Chinese : 刘勃麟 ; traditional Chinese : 劉勃麟 ; pinyin : Liu Bolin , born 7 January 1973) is an artist born in China’s Shandong province. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine... Read more →

David Bolinsky (born May 2, 1952) is a former lead medical illustrator at Yale . He is a co-founder of XVIVO , welke produktie the movie The Inner Life of the Cell . After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Illustration at Ohio State University and completing two... Read more →

Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), Berninahaus at his stage name Bono ( / b ɒ a oʊ / ), is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, executives, and Philanthropist. [2] He is best known as the lead singer of rock band U2 . Bono was born and raised... Read more →

Phil Borges (born 1942) is a social documentary photographer and filmmaker. For over twenty-five years Phil Borges has leg documenting indigenous and tribal cultures, Striving to create an understanding of the challenges they ‘face. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide and his award winning books, welke... Read more →

Shukla Bose is the founder and CEO of the Parikrma Humanity Foundation , [2] a nonprofit organization dat runs English-medium schools for under-privileged children in Bangalore, India. She volunteered with Mother Teresa at Missionaries of Charity for 7 years. [1] [3] Her career Began as a teacher in a convent... Read more →

Penelope J. Boston is a speleologist . She is associate director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute [1] in Carlsbad, New Mexico , and founder and director of the Cave and Karst Studies Program at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro . Among re research... Read more →

Tabetha Suzanne Boyajian (born c. 1980) is an American Astronomer on faculty at Louisiana State University . [1] [2] She was a post-doctoral fellow 2012-16 at Yale University , working with Debra Fischer . [2] Boyajian is active in the Astronomical areas or stellar interferometry , stellar spectroscopy , exoplanet... Read more →

Laurel S. Braitman (born February 11, 1978) is an American science historian, writer, [1] and a TED Fellow. [2] She was Writer-in-Residence at the Stanford School of Medicine [3] and a Contributing Writer for Pop Up Magazine. [4] She is ook een affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the... Read more →

Stewart Brand (born January 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog . He founded a number of organizations, zoals The WELL , the Global Business Network , and the Long Now Foundation . He is the author or verschillende books, Most recently... Read more →

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnates, investor and Philanthropist. [4] He founded the Virgin Group , welke controls morethan 400 companies. [5] Branson Expressed his desire to Become an entrepreneur at a young age. At the age of sixteen his first business... Read more →

Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (born November 15, 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico ) [1] is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group (formerly the Robotic Life Group ) at the MIT Media Laboratory... Read more →

Roderick Keith Ogilvy ” Rory ” Bremner , [1] FKC (born 6 April 1961) is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of British public figures. [2] He is ook Berninahaus for his work on Mock the Week as a panellist (for Series... Read more →

Sergeant Kevin Briggs (also known as the Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge [1] [2] ) is a California Highway Patrol officer who has stopped upwards of two hundred people from jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge JSON San Francisco Bay . Recently, Briggs announced dat he mention anything... Read more →

Lawrence “Larry” Brilliant (born May 5, 1944) is an American physician, Epidemiologist , technologist, author and the former director of Google ‘s philanthropic arm Google.org . [1] [2] Brilliant, a technology patent holder, has leg CEO of two public companies and other venture-backed start-ups. From 1973 to 1976 he participated... Read more →

Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 Expenses scandal , welke culminated in the resignation of House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin . [1] Brooke is Professor of Journalism at... Read more →

Arthur C. Brooks (born May 21, 1964) is an American social scientist and musician . He is the president of the American Enterprise Institute , a conservative think tank . Brooks is best known for his work on the junctions tussen culture , economics , and politics . Two of... Read more →

David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) [1] is an American conservative [2] [3] political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times . [4] He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times , a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal ;... Read more →

Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954 [1] ) is an Australian roboticist , Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science , author, and robotics entrepreneur must Berninahaus for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former... Read more →

Brené Brown (born November 18, 1965) is an American scholar, author, and public speaker, who is Currently a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work . [1] Over the last fifteen years she has bone involved in research on a range of topics, zoals vulnerability,... Read more →

James Gordon Brown , PC (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010 . He voorheen served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Blair Government from 1997 to 2007... Read more →

Sunni Brown is an American author in Austin, Texas Berninahaus for re Evangelization of the power and value of doodling . [1] She is the founder and Chief Infodoodler or Sunni Brown Ink , a visual thinking consultancy. She is a co-author or Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and... Read more →

Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962) is an American academic, and Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management , the Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy , [1] Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau... Read more →

Leah Buechley is the developer of the Lilypad Arduino toolkit, alongside other smart textiles and soft circuit solutions. She served as an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab from 2009 to 2013 where she directed the High-Low Tech research group. The High-Low Tech group Explored the integration of high... Read more →

Bruce Bueno the Mesquita (born November 24, 1946) is a political scientist , professor at New York University , and a senior fellow at Stanford University ‘s Hoover Institution . Biography Bueno the Mesquita graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1963, earned his BA degree from Queens College, New York... Read more →